Monday, August 14, 2017

Blogging About Self Improvement Is Fun

By Ruth Carter


All of us have had life experiences. Some of these will have been triumphs, while others may have been the most ghastly mistakes. However, we have learned even from our mistakes. Passing this learning on is fun on many levels, and sending our thoughts out into cyberspace is liberating. It can also be helpful to others who need encouragement or comfort. Blogging about self improvement is satisfying and just might be a lifeline thrown out to a floundering soul.

Everyone likes to talk about themselves. It's a lot harder to get listeners than it is to choose topics to expound upon. With a blog, the fear of boring the listener is lessened, as is the risk of making embarrassing personal revelations. With only a virtual audience, it's easier to relate your own experiences and the things you've learned from them.

There's another benefit to expressing our deepest feelings and insights. It often helps us clarify our thoughts if we write them down and bring them into coherent order. Since we don't necessarily understand ourselves, the discipline of organizing thoughts and drawing useful conclusions can be enlightening for us as well as others.

Level two: people like telling others what to do. Even if we are insecure, inside our own personal bubble we feel like we do have valuable insights to pass on to other lost souls. If we look back over our lives, we see valuable lessons learned or disastrous leaps taken when we now can see warning signs we missed at the time.

Further, we may be of real help to someone floundering out there in the ether. Our conclusions about love, family, living on a tight budget, succeeding in the workplace, or facing an uncertain future might be just the input someone else needs. Our reward will be the glow of doing a good deed and the satisfaction of touching another human being.

Think of the pivotal moments in your life. Maybe you had a job you loved but a new manager completely changed things. Did you throw a tantrum, suffer in silence, or find a way to adapt? Did leaving a place you had felt comfortable in launch you into a new and better place, or did you quit and learn to live on peanuts? Is a job a job and worth hanging onto, or was marching to your own drum worth the risks?

Don't work? Talk about how to save with coupons, grow superior tomatoes on a vertical support on your tiny balcony, teach your kid to read when the school system fails to, or teach yourself to touch type. Writing a blog is much better typing practice than doing those dumb exercises. When you can do 200 words a minute, you can get a medical transcript job and save for the vacation of your dreams.

Maybe you will become famous, if not rich, through blogging. Think of what could have been if Erma Bombeck had had a PC. Maybe you will build a following online that rivals the newspaper audience of Dear Abby. It's something to consider - and you 'can do it from the privacy of your own home'.




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